How To Measure Vinyl Sheet Flooring

Vinyl sheet flooring comes in larger 6 or 12 foot widths that are either cut to fit or come in prepared rolls.

How to measure vinyl sheet flooring.

To calculate your vinyl plank flooring. Enter the length and width of your flooring project in the calculator above. Finding the area of a rectangle is simple but if the rooms you want to cover aren t rectangular. Round up to the nearest half foot.

How to measure for vinyl flooring divide the space. Instead measure the dimensions of each. If you re purchasing two yard width boards you must divide 16 by two to determine how many linear yards of vinyl you need for your flooring project. Add 10 for waste and overage.

Drawing a rough sketch of the rooms where flooring will be installed and writing the dimensions on the drawing is another common approach. For example a room 12 4 wide would be considered 12 6 wide. Like vinyl tile wood vinyl flooring is also waterproof. 144 square feet 9 16 square yards of vinyl floors.

When you measure the room don t measure entire walls. Divide that by the case or pallet coverage. Measure the length and width of each room at its longest or widest point. Planks are typically 4 to 6 inches wide by 3 or 4 feet long.

Vinyl plank flooring mimics the look of real wood with different colors and textures available.